Traffic Manager

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Traffic Manager to join our team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people to join us. We offer market-related benefits, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to be part of building something great.

This role will report to the Head of Brand & Communication.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Planning, coordinating, workflow management, SOPs and on time delivery of projects in the Marketing department
• Interfacing between marketing and the rest of the business to ensure marketing requests and assets are deployed quickly and according to scope.
• Point of contact to receive and process requests, briefs and work requests into the Marketing Team.
• Managing the creation & delivery of marketing assets from briefing to execution, including but not limited to:
  • Ensuring the completeness of all briefs submitted by the business requesting marketing assets: product launch campaigns, emails, daily deals, carousels, fly outs, promotions, sales, sound recordings, landing pages, promotional and branded items, etc and following up with designers & copywriters to ensure that those briefs get implemented in a timely fashion
  • Conducting quality control on the design team’s outputs including but not limited to data integrity and checks, spell checks, functionality tests and ensuring that all links work as intended.
  • Reviewing and coordinating final sign-off of all assets from all relevant project stakeholders
  • Ensuring the successful deployment of marketing assets.
• The scheduling of daily newsletters, paid advertising, commercial projects in design studio and across the team
• Operational, capacity and Management reporting weekly and monthly.
• Managing projects and assigning tasks to resources and problem-solving any resource or scheduling conflicts.
• Design studio resource capacity planning and reporting
• Own and update SOPs and workflows in the division and across teams
• Conduct and manage daily stand-ups with studio and marketing teams
• Ensure that the Marketing Calendar is aligned and updated daily with Promo Team and Retail Marketing Channel Managers and Commercial teams and updated and communicated daily
• Manage the sourcing, collection and delivery of branding and collateral for conferences, golf tournaments, etc
• Proactively exploring new methodologies, systems and processes that enhance the flow of work through the Marketing team

Attributes required:

• Highly organised with meticulous attention to detail, and a well-structured thought process
• Ability to multi-task and to meet tight deadlines
• Very strong interpersonal skills and experience of marshalling cross-departmental resources towards daily goals and objectives
• Good numerical and analytical skills – adept at creating formulae, graphs etc.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of 3-4 years experience in a marketing, operations or digital traffic management role and will have project management experience
• A passion for retail and marketing is essential
• Relevant tertiary education to support this role
• Understanding of the digital process and ability to run projects according to basic digital traffic / project management processes and protocols
• Experience working with project plans and project management tools
• A high level of attention to detail and great organisational abilities are a prerequisite to succeeding in this role
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office – Microsoft Excel experience essential

The Environment:

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, it’s all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who

• is forthright but respectful
• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
• is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
• is curious and challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com.
• thinks like an owner of the business.
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.